Elina presents a beautiful selection of spiritual music dedicated to the eternal search and longing for inner peace. It's perhaps one of her most personal...continue...
Recording information: Sendesaal, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Funkhaus Halberg, S (10/2013)....continue...

The 'Eric Clapton of the lute' (BBC Magazine) comes back to the Alpha microphones, this time with the soprano Anna Reinhold. Here, Thomas Dunford applies...continue...
Recording information: La chapelle de l'hôpital Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Par (10/26/2013-10/29/2013)....continue...

The famous yellow books known as the Arie Antiche, compiled as the personal anthology of a single editor almost one hundred years ago, have formed...continue...
Recording information: Forde Abbey, Dorset (01/1992)....continue...

Soprano Montserrat Figueras, a genuine and beloved superstar of the early music world, passed away on November 23rd, 2011. A few months later, Jordi Savall...continue...
Recording information: 1980-2009....continue...

More than four hundred years separate us from Caccini's Euridice, and it is this that constitutes the greatest obsta-cle to our understanding of this first...continue...
Recording information: Innsbrucker Festwochen Der Alten Musik, Austria (08/2013)....continue...

Junko Ukigaya and Miyuki Motoi have a wide, colorful range of repertoire. Through the years the popular pieces on this recording have been arranged for...continue...
Recording information: Kerzlin (08/16/2012-08/18/2012)....continue...

The sixth release in the Rediscoveries series from Virgin Classics Andre Parrott's landmark recording of La Pellegrina - Music for the Wedding of Ferdinando De...continue...
Recording information: Studio No. 1, Abbey Road, London (07/1986)....continue...

Surveying music from Jacob Van Eyck to Claudio Monteverdi (by way of a few anonymous composers of the fourteenth century) this live recording from La...continue...
Recording information: La Sainte Chapelle de Paris (05/03/2012/05/06/2012)....continue...

In November 2011, the music world suffered a huge loss with the passing of the great soprano Montserrat Figueras. Acclaimed in recent years for her...continue...
Recording information: 1978/2009....continue...

In the words of J. W. von Goethe, "Orient and Occident / Cannot be separated ("West-Eastern Divan"). These lines are embodied in the music of...continue...
Recording information: Saarbrücken (05/2010)....continue...

The roots of handbells as musical instruments go back to the 17th century England where the first miniature copies of church bells were cast. First...continue...
Recording information: Tallinn, Estonia (03/26/2010-03/28/2010)....continue...

The union of voice and brass instruments creates a subtle alchemy full of emotion in these gems of vocal repertoire, from Handel and Vivaldi to...continue...
Recording information: Eglise Saint-Eliphe de Rampillon (04/2010-08/2010)....continue...

This is the first volume in a new series of sacred music dedicated to Marian music. It has at its heart a wealth of settings...continue...
Recording information: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, England (10/14/2008-10/15/2008)....continue...

Magdalena Koená explores the early Italian Baroque music of Monteverdi and his contemporaries with rewarding results. Inspired by the improvisational nature of much of this...continue...
Recording information: Potsdam, Nikolaisaal (09/2009-10/2009)....continue...

"Everything was so perfect, the evening seemed to pass in a flash," was The Independent's verdict on the Wigmore Hall recital in December 2008 by...continue...
Recording information: Wigmore Hall, London, England (12/07/2008)....continue...